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Regular monitoring of your SIS – are you doing it and is it effective?

Posted by TechStar on Dec 12, 2018 3:02:00 PM

This blog was originally posted by Yokogawa.

The monitoring of safety instrumented systems (SIS) is becoming more relevant to organizations in today’s process industries. Most are actively gathering some form of measurement to record and assess safety system performance. However, is this information accurate, reliable and fully inclusive to have real certainty to monitor safety system performance?

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Topics: Yokogawa, Safety

Bridging the Gap between HART Devices and IIoT, the Industrial Internet of Things

Posted by TechStar on Dec 5, 2018 10:03:00 AM

One smart instrument communication protocol has outlasted and outsold all of the alternative digital instruments and protocols introduced to market over the last thirty years -- HART and the devices that use it.  With over 40 million installed HART devices worldwide, HART is not only here to stay but unlike other protocols, it also continues to get updated revisions that enhance data exchange capacity, speed, number of devices on a network, support over Ethernet, and wireless capability. 

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Topics: Moore Industries

A game-changing approach to furnace safeguarding

Posted by TechStar on Nov 21, 2018 8:43:00 AM

This blog was originally posted on Hydrocarbon Processing and is a follow-up article to “Automate furnace controls to improve safety and energy efficiency,” which was published in the June 2014 edition of Hydrocarbon Processing. That earlier article described how automatic controls could be used in furnaces to enhance both safety and efficiency at the basic process control system (BPCS) level.

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Topics: Hydrocarbon

Accelerate Your HART Data at the Speed of Ethernet With the New HES HART to Ethernet Gateway

Posted by TechStar on Nov 7, 2018 10:22:00 AM

Blog originally posted by Moore Industries.

Timely knowledge about your process enables better decisions and faster preventive action. Now you can get the process detail that you need from your Smart HART devices to MODBUS/TCP and HART-IP based monitoring and control systems at the speed of Ethernet with the HES HART to Ethernet Gateway System from Moore Industries.

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Topics: Moore Industries

Upstream Solutions

Posted by TechStar on Oct 25, 2018 10:00:00 AM
This content was originally posted from TAS.

Through the process of building custom solutions for our clients, TAS has developed numerous quasi-standard solutions. These solutions are quasi-standard in that “out-of-the-box” they provide most of a client’s required functionality and then with minimal customization meet all of their needs. This approach provides the client with a shorter delivery time and lower cost.

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Topics: Texas Automation Systems, Upstream Solutions

Advanced Combustion Control of Fired Heaters

Posted by TechStar on Oct 16, 2018 9:05:00 AM

Fired Heater is widely used in oil refining and petrochemical industry providing heat for a main process or cracking reaction by fuel combustion.

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Topics: Yokogawa, Analytical Solutions

MSA Discontinuation Notice

Posted by TechStar on Oct 1, 2018 1:45:15 PM

Effective August 31, 2019, the FL3100H and FlameGard 5 UV/IR flame detectors will be discontinued. MSA will continue to support this product with replacement parts until 2023 or until critical components can no longer be sourced, whichever comes first.

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Topics: MSA, Fixed Gas Solutions

The WORM Adds Value Beyond Flexibility

Posted by TechStar on Sep 25, 2018 9:30:00 AM

Originally posted by Moore Industries.

The original goal when creating the WORM Flexible Temperature Sensor was to provide a sensor that could be cut in the field to accommodate various size wells and assemblies. Experience has proven this design helps with other obstacles in the field: 

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Topics: Moore Industries

MSA ModCon™ 75 Touch Controller Released

Posted by TechStar on Sep 20, 2018 10:30:00 AM

This was originally post by MSA.

MSA announced the release of the ModCon 75 Touch Controller.  This new controller builds upon the success of the previous ModCon 75, but with added features such as a 7” touchscreen monitor for ease of use.

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Topics: MSA

WHITEPAPER: Reduce Energy Costs and Enhance Emissions Monitoring Systems

Posted by TechStar on Sep 19, 2018 10:29:00 AM

A Technical White Paper from Fox Thermal Instruments.

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Topics: Fox Thermal, Thermal Gas Mass Flow Meters

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